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""There are many ways to tell a story . . . It is a question of choosing the right one."" The stories in Sparks from the Fire explore a wide variety of familiar characters and settings, yet there is always something else-a shadow world that haunts, disturbs, and threatens. Sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, recluses and lovers-all find themselves shifting between realities: the prosaic and the mystical, even between life and death. The horrors and wonders of these parallel existences are often glimpsed, sometimes revealed, and occasionally overwhelm. These nineteen tales inhabit a terrain in which the uncanny may at any time intrude into everyday life.

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"""[Parker's] treatment of the fantastic is often so light and ambiguous that stories in which it does manifest are of a piece with tales such as 'Jetsam' and 'Job Start', sensitive character sketches whose celebration of life's unforeseen surprises will appeal to fantasy fans as much as the book's more overtly uncanny tales. Parker proves herself a subtle and versatile writer."" - Publishers Weekly ""If you prefer spending dark evenings with a single author, consider . . . Rosalie Parker's Sparks From the Fire, which collects 19 stories, some set against the brooding Yorkshire landscape."" - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post ""A versatile author, Parker has clearly a penchant for the uncanny and the strange, which, however, is seldom overtly evident, but often peeping out gradually from the normality of daily life with its ordinary events . . . there is not a single bad story in the whole book. Should you decide to secure a copy rest assured that you won't regret it."" - British Fantasy Society"

""[Parker's] treatment of the fantastic is often so light and ambiguous that stories in which it does manifest are of a piece with tales such as 'Jetsam' and 'Job Start', sensitive character sketches whose celebration of life's unforeseen surprises will appeal to fantasy fans as much as the book's more overtly uncanny tales. Parker proves herself a subtle and versatile writer."" - Publishers Weekly ""If you prefer spending dark evenings with a single author, consider . . . Rosalie Parker's Sparks From the Fire, which collects 19 stories, some set against the brooding Yorkshire landscape."" - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post ""A versatile author, Parker has clearly a penchant for the uncanny and the strange, which, however, is seldom overtly evident, but often peeping out gradually from the normality of daily life with its ordinary events . . . there is not a single bad story in the whole book. Should you decide to secure a copy rest assured that you won't regret it."" - British Fantasy Society

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Rosalie Parker runs the independent UK publishing house Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Her previous collections include The Old Knowledge (Swan River Press 2010) and Damage (PS Publishing 2016). In 2020 her collection Through the Storm was published by PS Publishing. Rosalie lives in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, the magnificent landscape of which inspires and sometimes provides the settings for her writing.

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